Improvement w addressimg-jviachimes



L. BAILEY; 'Addressing-Machines.

Patented March 3.1874.

LEWIS BAILEY, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS.

IMPRQVEMENT EN DDRESSING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. MSJGB, dated March 3,1874 applicationiiled September 20, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS BAILEY, of Aurora, in the county of Kane andState of Illinois, have invented anew and Improved Addressing-Machine,of which the following is a specification: u

Wy invention consists of a little hand instrument in which a paper-roll,pasting-trough, pasting-rollers,and shears are combined and arranged sothat the operator can turn the pasting-rollers and draw the printedstrip of paper from which the slips are to be cut through the pastingapparatus to the shears by the thumb and iinger, while the hand retainsits hold on the handle of the shears, and then work the shears to outoff the slip when the strip has been fed along sufficiently, withoutreleasing the feeding or turning apparatus, all in a manner calculatedto greatly facilitate rapidity of action. Y

Figure l is a side elevation of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a frontelevation. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation on an enlargedscale, the section bein g taken on the line :1c of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 isa front viewv of the paste-roller and driving-wheels.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. y

A is the roll, on which the long strip of paper B, containing theaddresses, is rolled, to be fed to the pasting apparatus and the cutter.Said roll is mounted on journals in brackets C, rising up from the rearend of a little plate or bed-piece, D, of any approved kind. In front ofthe paper-roll is the paste-box E, at the front end of which is apaste-roll, F, working in an opening, G, in the end of the box, saidopening extending to the bottom of the box, and the roller being fittedso nicely and so revolving as to prevent the escape of the paste, exceptat the upper part of the opening, where there is a brush, H, to brushoft' any excess of what is needed, or brush it into the little cells c,grooves b, or other like depressions in the surface of the rollerprovided for receiving it, so as only to deliver the needed quantity tothe paper. Above the paste-roller is a pressure-roller, I, borne downupon its surface by springs K, to press the paper which runs between therollers onto roller F sulficiently to receive the paste. This roller iscir cumferentially grooved, as shown in Fig. 2, so that while exerting asuiiicient pressure upon the address -ribbon for pressing it onto thepaste-roller, it will bear upon the paper only at intervals apart toprevent it from receiving an excessive amount of paste. In front of thepaste-roller are guides L M, descending nearly to the bed -piece, andconducting the paper which runs between themdown to the stationarycutter. The guide-plates serve to prevent the address-ribbon from beingcarried upward by the movable cutter or shear-blade,

tion, it holds the sheanblade up, as repre sented in the drawings, toallow the strip of paper to befed along under it; but when the handle ispressed down smartly, it will yield and let the shear-blade go down andcut off the paper strip. The spring R comes into action when theshear-blade is pressed down and strikes the bed to relieve the shock. Italso presses the shear-blade against the stationary blade. To feed thepaper along through the pasting-rollers and the cutter, the pasting'-roller is geared by the wheels U with a little shaft V, extending up toa bearing-piece, W, attached to the handle near the front end. The shafthas a little milled wheel, X, just below the handle, where it can beworked by the thumb and foreiinger of the hand that actuates the handle.Said shaft also has a universal joint at Y, to accommodate itself to themovements of the handle, and it also has a telescopic extension-joint atZ, to allow the milled wheel to rise and fall with the handle. Thepaste-box slides into its position against the paste-roller from therear end between the sides d, and is held in position by a rod, e, whichcan be readily taken out when the pastebox requires lling. Thepaper-rollA maybe dispensed with, or any other equivalent contrivancemay be substituted for it. I

The pasting-rollers and feed mechanism may be used independently of thecutting devices for pasting long narrow strips that are not required tobe cut.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. A machine for applying directionslips tonewspapers, &c., formed by the combination ofa ribbon-reel, A,paste-receptacle E, clearin g-brush H, recessed paste-distributingroller F, pressure-roller I, guide or guard plates L M, and movablecutter O, operating in concert with a stationary cutter, N, when thevarious parts are constructed and relatively combined in the mannerherein shown and described.

2. The combination of the spring R with the rod Q, shear-blade O,stationary cutter-blade N, handle S, and supports T, substantially asspecified.

3. The handle S, spring-support T, extension and jointed feed-shaft Z YV, feed-wheel X, gear-wheels U, and paste-roller F7 substantially asspecified.

4. In combination with paste and pressure rollers F I, the guide-platesprovided with guard-iingers or tines m, projecting over thepaste-roller, as and for the purpose specified.

LEWIS BAILEY.

Witnesses T. B. MosHER, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

